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A military judge yesterday blocked prosecutors from seeing a mental-health report on the U.S.
Army psychiatrist who admitted killing 13 soldiers in a 2009 shooting rampage at a Texas army
base.

The report revealed that Maj. Nidal Hassan, 42, told mental-health evaluators that he wanted to
become a martyr as a result of his attack.

Hassan, acting as his own defense lawyer, had offered to share the confidential and potentially
damaging report with prosecutors in his court-martial on 13 charges of premeditated murder and 32
charges of premeditated attempted murder.